Do you really need to use stripslashes when retrieving the data? Wouldnt stripslashes only affect magic quotes or already added slashes, I mean when you addslashes to the SQL the slashes are indeed removed when inserted in the table.
-- -- Kim Steinhaug ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 10 types of people when it comes to binary numbers: those who understand them, and those who don't. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- www.steinhaug.com - www.easywebshop.no - www.webkitpro.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Justin Patrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jay Blanchard wrote: > > > Good morning gurus! > > > > I am encrypting some data on one server and now I am attempting to decrypt on another server using mcrypt_encrypt and mycrypt_decrypt (using same key and initialzation vector). It is almost working but I seem to still have a little problem, that data is missing the last character which still seems to be encrypted. I am putting the data in the database with addslashes, and retrieving with stripslashes, but I get things like this; > > > > 45221141¤Þ,]¹9Ñ > > 77777775ÿåZ|z > > > > while($arrEncInfo = mysql_fetch_array($dbGetSub)){ > > $stripDataA = stripslashes($arrEncInfo['dataA']); > > $stripIV = stripslashes($arrEncInfo['iv']); > > $dataA = mcrypt_decrypt($encAlg, $encKey, $stripDataA, $encMode, $stripIV); > > echo $dataA . "\n"; > > } > > > > Has anyone seen this? Could there be a difference between the PHP installs? Both are version 4.3.7. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Jay > > You should probably use mysql_escape_string or mysql_real_escape_string > instead of addslashes and stripslashes. IMHO addslashes and stripslashes > are pretty much useless. > > -- > paperCrane <Justin Patrin> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
